Russian Democracy

[CrossLOPER]

All hail Pericles Putin.

[Tribesman]

Actually, it's the other way around. While still bad, the number of people living in poverty* has been cut in half during Putin's rule.

Is that because poverty was huge before Putin because the government decided that a good way to stop inflation was to not pay people so they had no money to spend , it isn't much of an achievement to half that is it ...big idea for securing the future .....actually pay people wages for their work and they won't be in the poverty figures because they get paid .

Recent Election Results in Russia -- thoughts?

Yeltsin was dangerous , Putin is dangerous , sneaky and clever , not a nice combination .